That name just turned up in my family tree. It appears that someone just made it up, as just the one person turns up when I do a Google search on the name. Her siblings were Joachim, Elizabeth, Christopher, Mary, and William.

I have a Waitstill in my family tree. And again, her sibs all had ordinary names, like Sarah and Ann and Elizabeth.

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I think it depends on how you pronounce them. for instance, I would pronounce Tattum as Tat-tum because of the double T but based on other posts in this thread, the parents are likely to insist that it is pronounced Taytum.

It's supposed to be spelled Tatum, and the pronunciation makes sense. (As in the actor Channing Tatum.) The double t should indeed make it be pronounced Tat-tum, but people are just misspelling it without realizing that changes the pronunciation.

I know both a Channing and a Manning, both male, about 50 years old. Manning's father was named Ladd. Ladd's own father was named Manning, and his father was Ladd. The first sons alternated names through several generations.

My guess is that it wasn't so much the presence of Nicole but maybe the absence of a saint's name with it? I know of an elderly woman who was quite recently concerned to find out her great grandchild was getting a name completely devoid of a saint's name. It wasn't always expected to be the first name but it was usually somewhere in there back in the day. I have never heard of a priest nowadays urging it, at least around here , but I think some of the crowd who are old school still think that way.

I always thought Nicole and Nicolette were the feminine versions of Nicholas and therefore Good Ole St. Nick was their namesake.

Yes, they are the feminine versions of Nicholas, but in the eyes of the Catholic Church, that didn't cut it. There would have had to be a St. Nicole.

Interestingly enough, my mother also has a name that does not have a saint attached to it, but since her name is Christiane, I guess the priest couldn't object to that. (All right, it was probably not the same priest.)